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In the 1950s and 60s President Eisenhower warned Americans about the Military/Industrial Complex and how they would spend the country into oblivion.
If President Eisenhower were alive today, he would warn us about the Medical/Pharmaceutical Complex.
I have not trusted the Health industry in quite some time and I believe for good reason. Last year I blogged about the most renown sports medicine doctor in the country, Dr. James Andrews who was interviewed by the New York Times in a front page story in which he said that MOST MRIs for sports injuries were unnecessary. He said that an MRI gave us little additional information than when a physician examined a patient, talked to a patient or watched him perform a task. When Dr. Andrews was asked why there were so many MRIs taken he responded: "MONEY."
Last week a Canadian Medical team reported that mammograms performed yearly in women over 50 did not save additional women from dying of breast cancer.
In yesterday's New York Times the lead story was about over the counter and generic drugs made in India and sold in America. The report said that a significant number of generic drugs made in India were fakes or did not contain the active ingredients in cancer drugs or antibiotics. In fact, one of the leading drug regulators in India said the following:
“If I have to follow U.S. standards in inspecting facilities supplying to the Indian market,” G. N. Singh, India’s top drug regulator, said in a recentinterview with an Indian newspaper, “we will have to shut almost all of those."
Do you see why I don't know who to trust when it comes to our health?
